Neil Haven's "Who Killed Santa?" - being staged here for the fourth time - is among the final holiday shows to open in Milwaukee.

That's no accident. It's when we've already had one too many Christmas cookies that we're primed for the good time this show delivers, as it fosters sympathy for whoever stabbed Santa with a sharpened candy cane. | Dec. 17, 2012»Read Full Article(1)

It's like a day camp for adults. Or a Phish concert without music. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., hosts Beer Camp Across America, a seven city rolling beer festival with a stop in Chicago on July 27.

Sadly, that's as close as the festival comes to Wisconsin with exception. New Glarus Brewing Co., is at the heart of the Beer Camp adventure. In conjunction with the tour, Sierra Nevada commissioned 12 different beers to be made in its California brewery. New Glarus brewmaster Dan Carey helped create one of them. | July 7, 2014»Read Full Article

Going to the Wisconsin State Fair? Take a picture of your fair fun and post it on Instagram. Tag us @metroparentmke with the hashtag #statefairfun and be entered to win a grab bag of prizes. One winner will be chosen on the last day of the fair, Aug. 10.

We've put together a guide to this year's Wisconsin State Fair in hopes of helping you navigate this great family-friendly event with ease. The fair is July 31 - Aug. 10.

Keep in mind that the fair opens daily at 8 a.m. and several vendors offer breakfast. The fair is likely easier to navigate with small children earlier in the day, when the crowds tend to be less. | July 7, 2014»Read Full Article

Spring Green — Of all the plays within a play in Shakespeare, few are as simultaneously fun and satisfying as the staged scenes in "Much Ado About Nothing" through which a bickering Beatrice and Benedick get set up by their friends, nudging them toward a long-deferred acknowledgment that they love each other.

In the glorious and deeply moving "Much Ado" in American Players Theatre's Up-the-Hill amphitheater, David Daniel's Benedick and Colleen Madden's Beatrice do the eavesdropping — he on a conversation involving his friends, followed by Beatrice on a conversation of hers. | July 7, 2014»Read Full Article(2)